Contents
Declaration ii
Approval iii
Abstract iv
Acknowledgment v
List of Figures viii
List of Tables viii
Abbreviations ix
Definitions ix
Introduction 1
a) Background 1
b) Purpose Statement 2
c) Research Question 3
d) Research Objective 3
e) Significance of the study 3
Literature Review 4
Urban Heat Islands and Urban Geometry: 5
Impacts of the UHI effect on the energy demand of buildings: 7
Existing methods of modeling UHI Intensities 7
Validation Of Urban Weather Generator and Simulation Model: 9
Urban Building Energy Model 9
Urban Building Energy Modeling: Introduction 9
Overview of UBEM developed for CBD of Ahmedabad and Simulations for Cooling EUI Projections 10
Research Methodology 10
Case Study 11
Future Weather Predictions 11
UBEM Modelling and simulation of UHI Intensities 12
Workflow and Input Data for Urban Weather Generator 13
Parameter Variability: Sensitivity Analysis 16
Results: 18
Cooling Energy Consumption of CBD area: 18
Cooling Energy Consumption of Building archetypes 19
Cooling Energy Consumption of commercial buildings 19
Impact of RCP 8.5 Emissions + UHI Intensities on Cooling EUI of a commercial building 20
Conclusions 20
Limitations of the study 21
Bibliography 22
Annexures 27
Annexure 1: Construction Properties for the baseline UBEM 27
Annexure 2: Urban Weather Generator Components 28
Annexure 3: Cooling Energy Consumption Data Sheet 28
NO RCP 8.5 Emission and no UHI Intensities 28
Only UHI Scenario 28
RCP 8.5 Emission and UHI Intensities Scenario 29
Energy Consumption of Commercial building for each urban weather scenario 29
Annexure 4 30
Office Building with ECBC prescribed envelope: 30
ECBC Building Specifications 31